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Brad Pauls places his British middleweight title on the road towards Denzel Bentley, whereas the vacant European belt can also be at stake on the SSE Enviornment in Wembley on Saturday.
Frank Warren’s Queensberry promote Pauls vs Bentley on TNT Sports activities within the UK, while DAZN broadcast the cardboard within the USA.
After constructing an unbeaten document primarily down south in his native Newquay, Pauls (19-1-1, 11 KOs) branched out to this very enviornment final February, and got here unstuck in a factors loss for the English title towards Tyler Denny.
‘The Newquay Bomb’ would win the identical prize seven months later, stopping Mitchell Frearson for the vacant strap in eight, and that earned him a crack at British champion Nathan Heaney in March.
It was a thriller, and an absorbing combat couldn’t discover a winner, with the bout declared a draw. The fast rematch in July was a cracker, and Pauls, 31, ultimately outlasted Heaney, discovering the ending punches within the remaining spherical for a well-known win.
Pauls and Bentley face-to-face forward of Saturday’s showdown Picture Credit score: Leigh Dawney/Queensberry Promotions
His first defence comes towards Bentley (20-3-1, 17 KOs), a person who has held the Lonsdale Belt twice earlier than.
‘2 Sharp’ received the belt for the primary time towards Mark Heffron, however then dropped it in a 3rd spherical loss to Felix Money in his first defence, and he would win it again once more in Might 2022, taking a break up determination towards Linus Udofia.
A spirited loss for the WBO world title got here subsequent, as he was outpointed by now-unified champion, Janibek Alimkhanuly, and after defending his British crown in simply 45 seconds, the 29-year-old was then upset by the aforementioned Heaney on the playing cards final November.
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There have been a pair of second spherical wins since, with Danny Dignum vanquished for the vacant WBO Worldwide belt in Might, and Derrick Osaze blasted out in August.
Prediction: Pauls has had no issues in going into the trenches when wanted, and Bentley will possible pour the stress on early on right here. I believe Bentley might outlast his man, and take the win within the later rounds.
Noakes battles Walsh
Thrilling expertise Sam Noakes heads the undercard, and he defends his British, Commonwealth and WBO Worldwide light-weight titles towards the skilled Ryan Walsh.
Noakes (15-0, 14 KOs) has been virtually flawless thus far, with solely Yvan Mendy taking him 12 rounds, dropping all of them in April, and he was final out in September defending his European title in a retirement win towards Gianluca Ceglia.
Noakes continues his rise towards Walsh Picture Credit score: Leigh Dawney/Queensberry Promotions
Walsh (29-4-2, 13 KOs) has had a protracted profession, and has solely boxed twice in over two years, and his September warm-up for this noticed him destroy Reece Mould inside a spherical.
Prediction: Noakes has impressed extra with every passing combat, and I believe he can get the job accomplished towards a slowing Walsh inside the primary half of this bout.
Okolie meets Muhamed
Lawrence Okolie makes a Queensberry and heavyweight debut, when he faces Hussein Muhamed.
Okolie (20-1, 15 KOs) bounced again from a sole skilled defeat to former stablemate, Chris Billam-Smith by profitable the WBC bridgerweight crown with a primary spherical victory over Lukasz Rozanski in Might.
’The Sauce’ relinquished the belt to in pursuit of heavyweight honours and first up is Muhamed (18-1, 14 KOs), who has suffered one defeat himself, a 3rd spherical knockout loss to Zhan Kossobutskiy in November 2022.
Prediction: Okolie ought to mark his heavyweight bow with a victory contained in the scheduled ten spherical distance.
Dacres-Adeleye meet for English heavyweight crown
An attention-grabbing conflict for the English heavyweight title may very well be an in depth one to name, as David Adeleye challenges Sol Dacres.
Adeleye (12-1, 11 KOs) is seeking to rebound from a stoppage loss to British champion, Fabio Wardley final October, while Dacres (9-0, 3 KOs) retained his title with a seventh spherical stoppage over Michael Webster in July.
Prediction: Adeleye ought to take the title by stoppage.
Remaining Undercard
Sean Noakes (8-0, 4 KOs) is the second Noakes in motion on the night, and he could make the primary defence of his English welterweight title by outscoring Mathew Rennie (14-0-1, 1 KO).
Aloys Junior (8-1, 7 KOs) is one to regulate in 2025 and past, and the cruiserweight ought to be capable to take one other stoppage win, this time towards Lewis Oakford (6-1).
In the one eight rounder on the invoice, Royston Barney-Smith (12-0, 6 KOs) can spherical off his yr with a stoppage win at tremendous featherweight towards Andres Navarrete (12-2, 3 KOs).
One other tremendous featherweight attraction ought to see Billy Adams (4-0) take one other factors win, this one towards Jonatas Rodrigo Gomes de Oliveira (6-16, 5 KOs).
The only real 4 rounder sees a debut for Billy Crotty, who can get the higher of Dylan Courtney (2-17-2, 1 KO) on factors at mild heavyweight.
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